| | 7:26 AM - an April fool joke from UGA? Just yesterday (yesterday, I tell you!) I was entering phone numbers into my new phone, thinking of how great it is that in Athens you still can make a local call without dialing the area code. What a small, tight-knit telephone community, thought I. What a sense of comfort we get from not having to dial those first three digits! Even my cell phone doesn't require the area code.
And then an Official UGA Announcement crashed my dreams to the floor, causing me intolerable pain and a shattered sense of self: where is my community? Why must I abide by these new rules?
TO: UGA Faculty, Staff and Students
This is a reminder that 10-digit telephone dialing is
required within the 706 area code effective Monday, April
3. This means that any call placed from the campus to an
off-campus phone will now require 10-digit dialing preceded
by a 9. Local calls made between off-campus phones, and
from off-campus phones to on-campus phones, also will
require all 10 digits. However, calls between on-campus
phones still may be accomplished by dialing only the last
five digits of the number.
For more information, please see:
http://www.eits.uga.edu/pressreleases/2006/areacode.html
Join with me, Athens friends, by refusing to dial the area code. We may never get in touch with each other again, but we will NOT be giving into THE SYSTEM!!!
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By Josh Ritter
Release date: By 11 April, 2006 | 1 Comments |
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